15, 1799.) "A few (tax) rolls for the year V, and one-third of those for the year VII, are behindhand."-- (Report by the same, Germinal I, year X.) "Everything remained to do, on the advent of the consulate, for the assessment and collection of direct taxes; 35,000 rolls for the year VII still remained to be drawn up.

With the help of the new office, the rolls for the year VII have been completed; those of the year VIII were made out as promptly as could be expected, and those of the year IX have been prepared with a dispatch which, for the first time since the revolution, enables the collections to be begun in the very year to which they belong."] [Footnote 3220: "Archives parlementaires," VIII., p.11.

(Report by Necker to the States-General, May 5, 1789.) "These two-fifths, although legitimately due to the king, are always in arrears....

(To-day) these arrears amount in full to about 80 millions."] [Footnote 3221: De Foville, "la France economique," p.354.] [Footnote 3222: "The Ancient Regime," p.354.

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